Fresh on the heels of another Trump offer to buy Greenland, comes another call for independence. 
Push for Independence
EuroNews reports Greenland’s PM pushes for independence from Denmark amid Trump’s interest
The self-governing Danish territory has been in the spotlight since US President-elect Donald Trump reiterated his wish to buy the island.
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for the North Atlantic island to pursue independence from its former colonial ruler Denmark in a New Year speech.
The world’s biggest island — which is home to about 57,000 people — was a Danish colony until it become a self-governing territory of Denmark in 1979. Since 2009, Greenland has held the right to declare independence through a referendum.
“The history and current conditions have shown that our cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark has not succeeded in creating full equality,” said Egede, who is a member of the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party.
“It is now time for our country to take the next step,” he added. “Like other countries in the world, we must work to remove the obstacles to cooperation – which we can describe as the shackles of colonialism — and move forward.”
Egede’s speech this week came after US President-elect Donald Trump last month repeated his desire to purchase Greenland from Denmark, having first expressed the wish in 2019 during his first term in office. Responding to Trump’s latest comments, Egede last week said that Greenland is “not for sale and will never be for sale”.
Greenland — whose capital Nuuk is nearer to New York than Copenhagen — is rich in mineral, oil, and natural gas resources, but it relies on annual subsidies from Denmark worth some €500 million a year.
Home to a large US Air Force air base, Greenland is strategically vital for the US military. Following Trump’s latest remarks about buying the island last month, Denmark announced it would increase defence spending there by at least €1.3 billion — though Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said the timing was just an “irony of fate”.
Desire for Independence from Denmark
Reuters discusses the Desire for Independence from Denmark
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasised his desire to pursue independence from Denmark, its former colonial ruler, during his New Year speech, marking a significant change in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future.
Egede’s speech, which comes on the heels of comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressing his wish for “ownership and control” of Greenland, also expressed a desire to strengthen Greenland’s cooperation with other countries.
“It is about time that we ourselves take a step and shape our future, also with regard to who we will cooperate closely with, and who our trading partners will be,” he said.
An independence movement has gained traction in Greenland in recent years in part due to revelations of misconduct by Danish authorities during the 20th century, including an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s.
Make Greenland Great Again
MGGA
What else is there to say?
An independent Greenland would still fall into the sphere of influence of a greater power, in no time. Otherwise it would be roadkill, and end up there anyway. It would take quite a lot of fancy broken-field running, and luck, to retain actual independence, trying to play rival powers off each other. I guess it could aim for sort of a Saudi Arabia or India, kind of scenario, but it doesn’t have the time, population or other factors, I speculate, to pull that off, in today’s world. I would be shocked if it didn’t slide very quickly into the shadow of a patron power’s influence: the USA, Russia or China.
Trump should make Greenland an offer they can’t refuse – Accept our offer of making Greenland a state with all the benefits that brings the country or we send in the Marines.
Wow, Mishtalk has now 1600 partners. Congrats!
Well, with 57,000 people it’s sorta hard to be an independent country. And as soon as it’s independent, won’t some other big nation stop by, with a wee little Navy, and say
something like “Nice island you got there, would be too bad if something happened to it!” and “Let us protect you now! How about it?”
Apart from that, according to this article from EuroNews: “Greenland — whose capital Nuuk is nearer to New York than Copenhagen — is rich in mineral, oil, and natural gas resources, but it relies on annual subsidies from Denmark worth some €500 million a year.”
They have missed something big here: Greenland has pretty pretty huge generally
frozen, but generally drinkable water resources, that could be pumped or shipped from there to somewhere else, by anyone simply thinking big enough.
And since most of Greenland’s ice is, according to science, in a sort of “melty state” these days, building a few dams with water-powered electricity power plants might be a doable project.
But that’s just me with that “vision thing”. The majority of people are either too scared, too poor, too lazy, too NIMBY to allow anything constructive to happen.
Also, silly hint: Rename the capital Nuuk into something that does not sound like
a really long Nuk, i.e. pacifier. I hope I can still say that.
Considering it is the 21st century, it seems amazing that Greenland isn’t already an independent country.
Greenland has 1/5th the population of Boise, Idaho.
Watched brief interview with Kevin O’Leary which focused upon what was possible as outcome to Trumps initiative about Canada.
((He said that Canada was ready to dump Trudeau and Trump should wait a while until a new government formed.
Future talks would be aimed at some form of economic Union with Canada using common currency and even giving Canada some seats on Fed Reserve.
Canada would retain its sovereignty.))
By extension forming an economic Block within N. America is Feasible. Including Greenland would fit into that scheme. Certainly fits in with a common defense scenario for N. America and US need to get Europe to fund its own Defense with less reliance upon US support via NATO
Would not work. Just look at EU for the reason why. I’m sure the globalists are salivating at the idea though.
We need to eliminate the Federal reserve, not spread it outside the US.
What we need and what we will get are not necessarily the same.
Musk is Canadian citizen by his mother and he does have access to someones ear at this time.
Trudeau has impoverished Canada and there are western Provinces who are natural resource based economies which would be highly receptive to overtures from USA.
Trudeau is WEF and US will be moving away from WEF.
WEF is also in process of losing control in Europe. Which has made NATO a Burden that US wants Europe to shoulder much more of.
Trump also has his Tariff approach so he can exert some pressure on Trade linkages.
There are some force vectors favorable to greater economic and strategic alignment between US, Canada and throw in Greenland.
Remember all those Libertarians and other groups who could just not stomach Trump. Well they will now have to sit on the sidelines as he will answer to those who supported him and shun those who wanted no part.
He has said promises made equal promises kept. In common parlance a Deal is a Deal
add: I have no idea about Mexico as they have gone communist. But that is probably why Trump wants Panama Canal Back to deter China and reassert Monroe Doctrine.
add#2 I remain Bullish Canadian Dollar against Euro and now that Ukraine stopped Russian Gas transit to Europe, Europe can turn to US or Canada for its carbon products. Required to fend the winter winds off. Europe as always shoots itself in both feet then looks to blame someone else for its plight.
Well, if the EU government in Brussels keeps annoying its member states long enough, it might fall apart too. If either France, Germany, Poland, Italy were to exit, some bets might be off.
Promises, promises, from any politician, like, how often does that happen?
Uhm no.
Trump ripped off a number of his vendors and others in earlier times. He also talks out both sides of his zionist face at the same time in current times. He’s a massive fraud. A murderer, mass murderer and thief. He also thinks Qatar is his personal piggy bank.
The PM of Greenland might try to tame the US Empire but he (and Greenland) will end up in the “tiger’s” belly.
Since Musk was not born in the US he can’t become President but he could become Canada’s prime minister. Interesting possibilities.
No time for that, I’m off to Europe to support the new nazi party in Germany!
Which party is that? The SPD?
I knew Trudeau was going to be a disaster from the time he danced down the stairs to announce his candidacy for leadership of the Liberal Party. It was like his old man in 1968 all over again, with the adoring press lobbing softball questions. As bad as Trudeau is, he inherited a pile of manure started by the Mulroney junta that ass-kissed Reagan and got Canada into the Free Trade Agreement, then NAFTA. Few people understand that the “harmonization” required, meant Canadian manufacturing standards, some of the highest in the world, were dumped in order to allow inferior US manufactured goods to be sold in Canada. That devastated not only Ontario and Quebec economies, but the manufacturing sector in the West. NAFTA was followed by Cretien and Martin, both Liberals deciding Chinese manufactured goods and off-shoring to China were the answer. Harper sold out the West by abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board and stood by while the US imposed tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber. Yes, Trudeau has been bad, but he inherited a house with a foundation crumbling for more than 25 years.
The idiots in the United States of Alberta, a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Oil, think history started in 1972 with the election of the first Conservative government on 40+ years. They complain about the “East wanting their oil” and ignore the fact that in the late 1950s the “Red” Tory government of John Diefenbaker convinced the “Red” Tory government of Ontario to buy more expensive Alberta oil rather than cheaper imported oil. That was done by the Social Credit government in Alberta, the Canadian Commonwealth Federation (socialist) government in Saskatchewan (both of which got their provinces out of massive debts left by Liberal and Conservative predecessors), the “Red” Tory governments of Manitoba and Ontario agreeing to pay a 5 cents per gallon (approximately 25%) tax on gasoline to fund the pipeline to the refinery in Ontario. In short, Alberta had no viable oil industry without “the East” and its neighbouring provinces.
If people thing the Conservative Trump wannabe turd waiting in the wings is going to be any better, they had better wake up. He’s a fridge magnet Canadian and a train wreck waiting to happen. We’ve been occupied since the early 80’s by treasonous politicians determined to make us part of the US. Trudeau’s mild push back, foolishly done, has only multiplied his mediocrity.
Good perspective you have posted.
I wish we were back in simpler times as I truly liked having an independent Free Canada with plenty of Canadians who were proud of their country, sitting as our Northern Neighbor.
This is no longer those times and Canada is now weak and subject to external influence.
Better to enhance ties with US then with China.
If you live in a strategic site and have a very small population and economy you do not have the option of being neutral. Either one side or the other be forced to control or occupy you as Iceland found out in WW II. It was either the Nazis or the British but someone was going to be there. If you can choose then you try to get the best deal and make the best of it. It us now Greenland’s turn.
Greenland or Panama or any other country doesn’t have to choose to be led by any debt disaster nation like what Trump and his laughably delusional ideas are trying which are probably just an attempt to distract people from the mess at home in the US. Forced to control is nonsense. That’s illegally violating the sovereignty of an independent country, and the leaders of whatever country invades look like an idiot just like Russia in Ukraine.
“…but it relies on annual subsidies from Denmark worth some €500 million a year.”
Dumba**es are already owned by Denmark. You can’t be independent if you are relying on other people’s money. Now that they hear there is a wealthier buyer interested, they are dressing up the pig to get a higher price. The only thing that is established is that the prime minister is a whore and it’s only a matter of negotiating the price.
True, they should quit taking Denmark’s money right away, and tell Trump, no thanks, we don’t want any of your debt.
That prime minister went to the University of Greenland. University of Greenland?
I learned in history classes that colonies were exploited by colonial powers, and not subsidized by them.
Being totally dependent on BHP, Rio Tinto, Glencore and other miners for revenue is so much more noble.
I wonder what the CIA/American Government is offering this guy or what threat. This is almost like Alaska seeking to get the Federal government’s yoke off. Seen this too many times. They will become America’s slaves and nonexistent in time. Environment will be trashed with no regards to mining pollution.
As Henry Kissinger said: “It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”
They didn’t say they were joining America. They just want independence. Read for fucksake
Since when does it matter what the people want? We’ll tell them what they want and they’ll like it. Just like we (through our EU puppets) just nullified the first round of elections in Romania and (with the help of Samantha Powers are various US-funded NGO’s) have been trying to overturn the recent election in Georgia. Don’t forget that when the very popular Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wanted to buy Russian oil and gas in 2022 we bribed enough politicians and judges there to get him deposed and thrown in prison. Worst case, if the US decides it wants Greenland, it could give every inhabitant a couple million dollars. It would cost less than half of what’s been wasted in the Ukraine. Of course, it would be cheaper to just bribe a few Judas goat politicians.
57,000 times 2 million = 114 Billion Dollars (114,000,000,000).
Sorry, no, way too expensive!
$114 Billion …. of (hot) air.
USD is fiat, based on nothing, and now does not have the pedo-dollar skimming game to support it. Thee is no “Full Faith and Credit” in Washington.
Washington’s only saving graces are that they can print all the fiat “money” they want and the implied threat of the pentagon/CIA showing up on foreign soil for failure to obey.
Eventually the ruling class oppressing the people stops, at least for awhile like the British colonies revolting to form the US, but sadly the same oppression returns due to people letting themselves become corrupted like thinking giving or taking bribes will benefit them. It never has and never will and that’s been warned in the freely available Scripture for millenia.
How many countries are truly independent?
Since you’re a moron and can’t read between the lines it’s quite obvious what Trump is demanding from Greenland. Join us or we’ll conquer you.
It would serve Trump right to have a heart attack in the midst of one of his idiotic conquering threats. Yeah let’s go from already being a debt disaster and reduce ourselves further to global outcast land grab invader like Russia. Trumps just trying to start a bunch of little fires elsewhere to distract attention from the big fire at home.
wow, this is something I never even heard about, other than Trump is a blowhard. The history of Denmark mishandling such a strategic site, I now wonder what we have missed over the decades…..
Maybe you should read some history books and educate yourself. The US wanted to buy Greenland a couple of times even before Trump became President.
Also check out something called the US Virgin Islands…..
The Trump Effect strikes again. Common sense will prevail.
If the fifty thousand alcoholic Eskimos controlled that continent they would sell mineral rights to the Chinese for $24 worth of firewater.
I’ll give them $48 worth – and a mural showing Inuits DOING GREAT THINGS.
“including an involuntary birth control campaign launched in the 1960s.”
What
Welfare bums have no right to breed on the taxpayers’ dime.
If you live in a modern industrial state, then you live in a welfare state. The fact that you are posting on this board tells me you fully participate in that welfare state.
I participate by paying taxes because I go to prison if I don’t pay. What is your point?
Land of the free…
… Home of the knave.
naive?
Call me Al or AI
Alexander or Artificial Intelligence? Which is it?
AL, but I can’t have it that way because then it looks like the postal abbreviation for Alabama and I don’t want to be called that.
Unfortunately the font doesn’t differentiate between capital I and lower case L, but perhaps the “artificial intelligence” term will be supplanted when it evolves to a more intelligent state.
I guess, the natives would have outstripped the resources of the land. Happened throughout history.